When you receive an email from a person or a company that you don’t know, would you click on the Internet links in that email? I would hope not. That’s because the links could let spammers, who harvest email addresses, know that you opened their […]
As you might have read in my “Do You Use Microsoft Outlook With Gmail? Maybe Not After May 30” article, Google has tightened up its security to our benefit in that our Google accounts are now more secure. However, the “cost” to us is that
A problem was encountered when upgrading my Outlook 2013 to Outlook 2021. (See my “Do You Use Microsoft Outlook With Gmail? Maybe Not After May 30” article.) The “Save Sent Item to” item disappeared from the Quick Access Toolbar. After extensive Internet research, I decided
If you are using Outlook with Gmail, you might need to take action by May 30, 2022. If your version of Microsoft Office is Office 2016 or older, you probably received this email: In my case, I received the email above because I was using
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There is some personalization of the Windows 10 Start Menu built into Windows 10. If you go to Settings > Personalization > Start, you will see changes you can make. However, we are not going to cover those changes in this article. We will cover
Did you ever wonder where all your Windows WiFi passwords go? You visit lots of places, often logging into their WiFi network with their passwords, but you never see their passwords again. They are all still on your PC, but how can you see what
For several months I’ve been struggling to find the reason that POP3 doesn’t work as expected for my Gmail account. POP3 is used to download email from an email server to your PC or download email between two email accounts. The problem I’m seeing is
If you are running any version of Microsoft Outlook, it’s a good idea to occasionally run a check of all Outlook data files to make sure there are no errors. This is particularly true if Outlook is misbehaving. There are various ways to repair Outlook,
Sometimes you may need to know or want to know if a program is 32-bit or 64-bit. Even though 32-bit programs can access up to 4 Gigabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM), many 64-bit Windows operating system hardware has much more RAM than that. For
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If you’ve ever used the Administrative Tools listed in Control Panel, you know how handy they are for accessing the tools you need for maintaining or fixing Windows. Below is what the upper-left corner of my Control Panel looks like when the “Small icons” Category
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I dislike email spam as much as most people, maybe more. For many years I tried various ways to stop or at least minimize spam. I tried systems such as Knujon (“NoJunk” spelled backward), BlueFrog, and Okopipi, but they never worked for me and are
CCleaner has had an interesting history. It was developed by a British software company, Piriform, and launched in 2004. Originally called “Crap Cleaner”, the name was shortened to “CCleaner”. It became quite popular for cleaning potentially unwanted files and invalid registry entries from Windows. Over
In a previous article at How To Edit Webpage While Saving To PDF, we were able to edit almost any webpage by using a bookmarklet before printing or saving it as a PDF. You may recall that a bookmarklet is Javascript inserted in the URL
Kaspersky Antivirus Can Cause A Problem Kaspersky Antivirus, now called Kaspersky Security Cloud, is an excellent antivirus program for Windows. It is consistently rated in the top few antivirus programs. Being a Russian company, it has had its political problems. I’m not going to get
